Plasmon-enabled processes: new opportunities in cross-cutting science and emerging technologies

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Abstract

Metallic nanoparticles, used since antiquity to impart intense and vibrant color into materials, have more recently become a central tool in the nanoscale manipulation of light. This interest has led to a virtual explosion of new types of metal-based nanoparticles and nanostructures of various shapes and compositions, and has given rise to new strategies to harvest, control, and manipulate light based on these structures and their properties. By assembling metallic nanoparticles into useful building blocks, a striking parallel between the plasmons of these structures and wave functions of simple quantum systems is universally observed. [1] Clusters of metallic nanoparticles behave like coupled oscillators or antennas, introducing coherent effects such as Fano resonances and electromagnetically induced transparency, originally the domain of atomic physics, into designable, light-driven nanoscale structures. [2] Their unique light-controlling properties can be put to use in a multitude of ways: for generation of hot electrons for color-specific photodetection[3], for photothermal cancer therapy, currently in clinical trials, and most recently, for high-efficiency solar steam generation poised to tackle our planet’s energy and sustainability challenges.[4-6] [1] E. M. Prodan, C. Radloff, N. J. Halas and P. Nordlander, Science 302, 419-422 (2003). [2] J. A. Fan, K. Bao, J. Bao, R. Bardhan, N. J. Halas, V. N. Manoharan, P. Nordlander, G. Shvets, and F. Capasso, Science 328, 1135-8 (2010). [3] M. W. Knight, H. Sobhani, P. Nordlander, and N. J. Halas, Science 332, 702-4 (2011). [4] O. Neumann, A. S. Urban, J. Day, S. Lal, P. Nordlander, and N. J. Halas, ACS Nano 7, 42-49 (2013). [5] O. Neumann, C. Feronti, A. D. Neumann, A. Dong, K. Schell, B. Lu, E. Kim, M. Quinn, S. Thompson, Nl Grady, P. Nordlander, M. Oden, and N. J. Halas, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110, 11677-11681 (2013). [5] N. J. Hogan, A. S. Urban, C. Ayala-Orozco, A. Pimpinelli, P. Nordlander and N. J. Halas, Nano Letters 14, 4640-4645 (2014).

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Authors

  • Darren Depoy

    University of Michigan, Univeristy of Michigan, Texas A\&M University, UC Riverside, University of Massachusetts, STScI, NOAO, University of Texas, Cyclotron Institute, Texas A\&M University, ENEA, Italy, INFN, Italy, University of Texas at Austin, TX, Cyclotron Institute, TAMU, TX, Cyclotron Institute TAMU, TX, Cyclotron Institute - Texas A\&M University, Texas A\&M Univ, Texas A\&M University, Baylor University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A\&M University, College Station, Texas, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200240, China, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A\&M University, College Station, Texas, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A\&M University, College Station, Texas, Texas State University, University of Texas at Arlington, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, DESY, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A\&M University, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Texas A\&M University, Princeton University and Baylor University, Texas A\&M Univ at Qatar, Kazan Federal University, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Institue for Quantum Science and Engineering (IQSE) and Department of Physics \& Astronomy, Texas A\&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA, MIT, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Postgrad, ORNL, Muons Inc., Texas Lutheran University, West Virginia University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of Kentucky, US Naval Academy, University of Dallas, U.S. Naval Academy, Univ of Texas, Arlington, Department of Physics, Texas A\&M University, College Station, TX 77845, Science and Petroleum Departments, Texas A\&M University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, Department of Physics, Texas State University, Florida A\&M University, Texas A\&M University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar, Physics and Astronomy Dept., TCU, Geology Dept., TCU, Colorado College, University of Texas at El Paso, University of Texas at Brownsville, Rochester Institute of Technology, Baylor University, Texas A\&M, Princeton University, Baylor University, Princeton University, Texas A\&M University, Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A\&M University; WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University, Japan, WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University, Department of Chemistry, Texas A\&M University, Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A\&M University, WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University, Japan, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A\&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A\&M University and WPI-Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, JILA, NIST, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A\&M University and Institute for Quantum Studies and Engineering, College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA, Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ulyanov street, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Rice University, Texas A&M University